The metamorphosis of autism
'A history of child development in Britain
Series edited by Professor Keir Waddington, Bonnie Evans
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Author Biography
Bonnie Evans is Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at Queen Mary, University of London
Manchester University Press
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date February 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719095924
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 25 GBP
- Pages512
- ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 x 138 mm
- Illustration3 black & white illustrations, 7 tables
- Biblio NotesIntroduction: Perceiving, describing and modelling child development Part I: The first autism: The observation and description of child development before 1959 1: The first autism 2: The first autism controversies 3: Inside the Maudsley Psychotic Clinic in the 1950s Part II: How Autism became Autism 4: The transformation of social life and the transformation of autism in the 1960s 5: How do you measure a social impairment? 6: Epidemiology, epidemics and autism as a global health crisis Conclusion Index
- SeriesSocial Histories of Medicine
- Series Part2